Interlink World Fiction

The best way to learn about people and places far away.

This series is designed to bring to North American readers the once-unheard voices of writers who have achieved wide acclaim at home, but were not recognized beyond the borders of their native lands. With special emphasis on women writers, Interlink's Emerging Voices series publishes the best of the world's contemporary literature in translation or original English.

"Interlink World Fiction is now the most important collection of Arabic literature in translation in the English-speaking world." --Robert J. Sullivan, professor at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in Metamorphoses, a journal of translation

As children sleeping on the rooftop of their ancestral family home in Raqqa on warm summer nights, Joumane a...$15.00

Ali and His Russian MotherAlexandra Chreiteh; translated from the Arabic by Michelle HartmanA FRESH, DARING VOICE IN ARABIC LITERATURE TODAY

Alexandra Chreiteh's Ali and his Russian Mother is at once an ordinary and extraordinary story of two young people in Lebanon. At the outbreak of the July War in 2006, the novel's u...$15.00

All That's Left to YouA novella and other storiesGhassan Kanafani; translated by May Jayyusi and Jeremy Reed; introduction by Roger AllenIt should come as no surprise to learn that Palestinian writers themselves have been in the forefront of those who have addressed themselves to the tragedy of their own people, and in a variety of genres and styles… While all these writers dis...$15.00

Always Coca-ColaAlexandra Chreiteh; translated from the Arabic by Michelle Hartman

The story of three different young women marks the literary debut of an amazing writer from Lebanon

Always Coca-Cola is the story of three very different young women attending university in Beirut: Abeer, Jana, and Yasmine...$15.00

American Quarter, TheJabbour Douaihy; translated by Paula HaydarJabbour Douaihy’s The American Quarter is set in the Mediterranean port city of Tripoli, on the northern coast of Lebanon. Unfolding at the height of the US-led invasion of Iraq, it revolves around the radicalization of an ordinary you...$15.00

Another Sea, Another ShoreStories of Iranian MigrationShouleh Vatanabadi and Mohammad Mehdi KhorramiIn today’s world, with its often fluid national borders, many outstanding literary works have given voice to the life experience of immigrants, whose very being challenges traditional notions of national identity and culture. The recent immigra...$15.00

At the Wall of the AlmightyFarnoosh Moshiri"I know that I'm in the hallways of El-Deen, the central prison of the Holy Republic, and I know that this guard is taking me from my solitary confinement — the Black Box — to cell number four, cell of the Unbreakables. But this...$16.00

AN EVOCATIVE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF DREAMS OF MARYAM TAIR

Aya Dane creates mixed media paintings and writes a diary in her studio above a strange, old Cambridge townhouse. There she lives alone, having left her...$15.00

B as in BeirutIman Humaydan Younes; translated by Max WeissForeWord Magazine's Book of the Year Award -Gold 2008, Translation Fiction

The four interlocking narratives that make up this extraordinary novel belong to four women who live in the same apartment building in Beirut dur...$15.00

Balcony over the Fakihani, ALiyana Badr; translated by Peter Clark with Christopher TingleyThe title story of Liyana Badr’s remarkable collection of three short novellas interweaves the narratives of three Palestinians, two women and one man, relating their successive uprootings: from Palestine in 1948, from Jordan during Black Septe...$12.95

In Ben Barka Lane we see the Morocco of the late 1960s through the eyes of a young political exile from Iraq—its beauty and misery, its unforgettable people. In...$15.00

Bleeding of the Stone, TheIbrahim al-Koni; translated by May Jayyusi and Christopher TingleyThe moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found. Now he...$15.00

Blue Has No SouthAlex Epstein; translated by Becka Mara McKay"Their love story ended many years ago. He still writes her name as a solution to crossword puzzle clues of suitable length."

Book of the Sultan's Seal, TheStrange Incidents from History in the City of Marsby Youssef Rakha; translated from the Arabic by Paul StarkeyWINNER OF THE 2015 SAIF GHOBASH BANIPAL PRIZE

It’s hard to imagine a debut more thrilling than Youssef Rakha’s groundbreaking The Book of the Sultan’s Seal. The novel is made up of nine chapters, each cen...$19.95

Cages on Opposite ShoresJanset Berkok ShamiSet in Istanbul, this novel tells the story of Meral, a modern-day Turkish woman searching for identity and renewal after leaving her husband of 11 years. Living among the dusty artifacts in the deserted rooms of her deceased mother's house, Mera...$11.95

Calligrapher's Secret, TheRafik Schami; translated from the German by Anthea BellA new international bestseller from the award-winning author of The Dark Side of Love

In the narrow streets of the old city of Damascus, a rumor is circulating: Nura, the beautiful wife of the famous calligrapher Hamid Farsi, has...$20.00

Children Who Sleep by the River, TheDebbie TaylorFour generations of African women: baby Tendai lies waiting to be born in her mother Beauty's womb; Beauty, pregnant for the first time and fearful of witches' spells, returns from the tobacco fields to her native village and to her mother Mi...$24.95